• CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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    Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän. Actual word for an actual job that existed until 1991. Welcome to German.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
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      eh people always point to German but they just use compound words more often. if you know the parts that make up the word it shouldn’t be hard to parse.

      • Allemaniac@lemmy.world
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        that makes german easier than most other languages, for example french, where they just invent new sounds to fuck with foreigners and use a new or loanword for any complex situation, instead of just compounding the information